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More Colleges Are Using Hand-Held Devices as Classroom Aids
via nytimes.com Classroom response systems are becoming more and more prevalent. If only the clickers didn’t cost $70 a piece on top of the interactive white board setup. Even with the limitations and potential issues of time, speed, and availabil…
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Posterous for Millard Teachers
Ever heard of email? That’s how we’ll be creating a classroom blog (or website – they are the same thing really…) today using a great service called Posterous. The training agenda, links and resources will follow the jump! First thing is to crea…
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RIP GOOG-411…
Back in 2007 we launched 1-800-GOOG-411, a voice-powered directory assistance service that connects you quickly to businesses across the U.S. and Canada. On November 12, 2010, we will shut down the service. GOOG-411 was the first speech recognitio…
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GroupMe – Free Alternative to TextMarks for Small Groups
Check out this website I found at groupme.com Now that TextMarks has limited free groups to one-per-user, GroupMe might be a good alternative for classroom-sized groups. Each group created has it’s own unique phone number and will accomodate up to…
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Step-by-Step How-To for Prezi Meeting
via prezi.com More on Prezi Meeting. They have kept it very simple and straight forward. When in Prezi editing mode, just click Meeting –> Invite, and you are presented with a link that you can share with your collaborators. You can also create a…
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Video: Prezi Meeting in the classroom
via prezi.com I liked Prezi before, but this is fantastic. I love showing teachers and students the collaborative power of using Google Presentations. This takes that collaboration to another level. As the video says… Thanks Prezi! Sign up for a…
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Texting Communication Breakdown!
via schooltube.com I’m glad to see that some kids are realizing that there is such a thing as texting too much. Now, just work on that spelling! 🙂
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Hey! I have an iPad! Now what?
I received this message from a teacher that I work with today: I have an iPad and want to get it to work with my Google stuff – do I need an app? Do you have any tips or good apps for it? Excellent! I just got one about a month ago, and I am…
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Formative Classroom Assessment Techniques
Here you can access, view, and even download the presentation on Classroom Assessment Techniques for Beaver High School today. The site is best viewed with Firefox or Safari. I’ve also included a PDF of the presentation outline that I gave out as …